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(JTA) — Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a German-Jewish author and literary critic sometimes referred to in Germany as the “pope of literature,” has died.
The death of Reich-Ranicki, a Holocaust survivor and a spokesman for reconciliation between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, was...
MARJORIE SKINNER TOLMAS, a former chief of Nursing at both Touro Infirmary and Oschner Foundation Hospital, died Tuesday, September 17, 2013.
A resident of New Orleans for the past 65 years, Tolmas graduated from the Charity School of Nursing before...
CAROLYN LAZARUS, a housewife, mother and community volunteer died at Lambeth House on Friday, September 13, 2013. She was 91.
Lazarus was born in Shreveport and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, the same school her future husband, Dr. Wilbur...
JEROME L. GOLDMAN, an engineering pioneer, philanthropist, and civic leader, died September 5, 2013, at his home in New Orleans after a lengthy illness. He was 89.
Goldman received various national and international naval architecture and engineering recognitions including the...
MILLIE GREENBERG BRICKMAN MERLIN, a former real estate agent and stay-at-home mother, passed away peacefully at Chateau Living Center on Saturday, August 31, 2013. She was 98.
Merlin, the widow of second husband Jack Merlin, had in more recent times...
MORRIS KRILOV, 96, a retired furniture store owner died earlier today, August 30, in Metairie,. A longtime member of Congregation Chevra Thilim (Orthodox and later Conservative), Krilov and his family became members of Shir Chadash Conservative Synagogue at the time...
JULIAN GOOD, a retired real estate attorney who was a senior partner in the law firm of Lemle & Kelleher, an integral part of his more than 50-year legal career, died August 18 of complications from pneumonia in Savannah, GA,...
HELEN CHAJA LEVKOWICZ, a Holocaust survivor who lived a quiet life in New Orleans as a homemaker and mother, died Monday, April 19. Levkowicz, 84, had been a resident in recent years at Poydras Home.
A native of Krakow, Poland,...
Eydie Gormé, a beloved singer and performer both with and without her famous husband and partner, Steve Lawrence, passed away last night in a Las Vegas hospital after a brief illness. She was just six days short of what would...
YEHUDA LEV, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence, who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, died Saturday, August 3, in Providence, RI, after a prolonged illness. He...
